2013 reissue. Legendary Russian band Auktyon's 1993 album Ptiza (Bird). Founded by Leonid Fyodorov and Oleg Garkusha, the band originally played post-punk and new wave, but later came to be influenced by European and Central Asian folk music, avant-garde jazz, the poetry of Russian futurist Velimir Khlebnikov, and aspects of Russian high culture and literature.